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TIL in 1990, George Steinbrenner was Banned from Baseball for Life - Only to be reinstated 3 years later.

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neZRd TIL Daniel Berrigan— an anti-war priest wanted by the FBI for raiding a draft office & burning draft cards as part of the “Catonsville Nine” in 1968— emerged from hiding at a Cornell University rally, gave a speech, & was smuggled offstage inside of a large puppet. He evaded capture for 4 months.
GjrE TIL that Nazis cleared minefields by chasing captured civilians across, detonating the explosives.
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nPY7 TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines, which states that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word no.